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Detroit’s Dirty Secret: Automakers Are Making Money
Contrary to popular opinion, Ford, GM, and Chrysler actually know how to build damn good cars that sell quite well. They just don’t do it here.
December 9, 2008 | Read More
High Hats At The Taxpayers’ Soup Kitchen
Priceless video footage of Representative Gary Ackerman ripping into Detroit CEOs for promising to “streamline” their businesses right after all three of them flew to Washington on “private luxury jets”:
November 19, 2008 | Read More
Thomas Friedman Says Fire Them All
The New York Times columnist thinks Detroit needs tough love, too.
November 12, 2008 | Read More
Bailout For Detroit En Route. But Will Anyone Pay?
Shouldn’t Congress demand new leadership in Detroit before we give the car companies billions? Or are we just going to trust the same people who wrecked their firms to magically steer them in the right direction this time?
November 12, 2008 | Read More
Uncle Sam To GM: All I Got Is $25 Billion
Hank Paulson has apparently decided that General Motors - one of the biggest corporations on the planet, which employees 200,000 and provides health care and pensions to a million Americans - is not ‘too big too fail.’ But don’t feel too sorry for the behemoth multinational. It looks like Uncle Sam has found a way to toss a couple dozen billion its way after all.
November 3, 2008 | Read More
Reason #81: Gasholes and Jackgases - Isolation on Wheels
Americans like to picture themselves driving off into the sunset, but right now, unless we make real changes to our energy policy, we’re speeding toward a cliff.
The farthest place you can get from Europe and its bullet trains is Smugsville, USA. Everyone here’s got a “up yours” attitude and we’re proud of it. How do you know you’re in Smugsville? When you’re in a car, by yourself, with the pedal to the metal and bass booming in your ears as you jerk the wheel back and forth to cut from lane to lane.
Let’s face it: We’re a culture on wheels. We demand…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
